Bloemfontein Primary School

The Middles, Stanley, County Durham, DH9 6AG

 Bloemfontein Primary School
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Home / SEND / SEN Specialist Expertise

SEN Specialist Expertise

SENCO and SEN Staff

Our SENCO is Mrs Natalie Trewhella (BA Hons/NASC) – Contact on 01207 232198.

More details of the SENCO’s role can be found in the SEN Policy which you can find in the School Policies section of our website.

The Headteacher Mrs Laura Liddell is also an experienced SENCO and has the NASC qualification.  Please contact on the above telephone number.

External Specialists and Other Bodies

The school enjoys good working relationships with a wide range of people who provide services to children with SEND and their families.

The external specialists may:

  • Act in an advisory capacity
  • Extend expertise of school staff
  • Provide additional assessment
  • Support a child directly
  • Suggest statutory assessment is advisable
  • Consult with all parties involved with the child

These include:

  • Durham County Council Local Offer
  • Durham SEND Information,  Advice and Support Service
  • Behaviour Intervention Team (BIT)
  • CAMHS
  • Cognition and learning team
  • Relax kids specialist
  • Educational Psychologist
  • Speech and Language team
  • Occupational Therapists
  • ASD team
  • Emotional resilience/EWAL team

How We Secure Specialist Expertise

Our Additional Needs Budget is used to support children and young people with SEN.  School closely monitor the spending of this money through budget review sessions, provision mapping and costed provision maps.

This is used to support children and young people with SEND by:

Additional Teaching Assistant support, Service Level Agreements with a range of teams, training for staff, referrals to outside agencies, specific resources and access to a range of interventions.

If a child has complex special educational needs, we could also receive additional funding from the Local Authority to meet the agreed outcomes.

In this section

  • Introduction
  • Our SEN Provision
    • The kinds of SEN that are provided for:
    • Our approach to teaching children & young people with SEN
    • How we adapt the curriculum and learning environment for children & young people with SEN
    • How we identify, assess and review children with special educational needs
    • How children with SEN engage in all activities?
    • How we evaluate the effectiveness of SEN Provision
  • Support for Emotional & Social Development
  • Looked After Children with SEND
  • SEN Transition
  • SEN Specialist Expertise
  • Consulting with our SEN Pupils, Parents & Carers
  • Compliments, Complaints & Feedback
  • Key Policies
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The Middles
Stanley
Co. Durham
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